On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: >On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> We're certainly getting somewhere. We can allow root folders next to INBOX >> by interpreting all folders called ./.<something> as such, but reserving >> one special folder to be interpreted as a special "alias" for INBOX. >Why wouldn't that folder be ~/Maildir? RFC2060 reserves INBOX (and all >case permutations) for "the primary mailbox for this user on this server".
Subdirectory of Maildir/ called .INBOX, was what I meant. >> Maildir++ folder, then we need to make a decision as to what Binc IMAP >> should do. >> So what do you guys think? >> - As a root folder next to INBOX with a special name >> - As INBOX/INBOX (but what about ./.INBOX.INBOX/ ? >Ignore it. It's not accessible via Binc IMAP, just like an infinite number >of other possible diretory names and locations. We'll have to do something smart. >> How about this - Binc could explicitly disallow a selectable root mailbox >> (subfolder of the root Maildir) by the name INBOX. >How and why? I must be able to select "INBOX". The Maidir++ subfolder called INBOX, not INBOX itself. Maildir/.INBOX would have to be reserved. >> If it's there, then Binc could rename the folder and give it a new name - >> this can be done safely by appending numbers. >Unnecessary work, I think. Why should Binc do this? In case somebody actually creates a Maildir++ subfolder called INBOX with another client - this folder would not be readable by Binc. >> Who would make a subfolder of INBOX called INBOX? The only thing I can >> think of is subscribers to lists-bincimap trying to break Courier-IMAP. ;) >What does "a subfolder of INBOX" mean? I think this means either "a folder >called INBOX/INBOX", or it means "a folder INBOX within the namespace >INBOX", where we are ignoring the convention that namespaces begin with >"#". I prefer the former interpretation, in which case INBOX/INBOX just >maps to ./.INBOX.INBOX, according to Maildir++ conventions. INBOX/INBOX maps by Maildir++ conventions to ./Maildir/.INBOX/, FWICS. Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
